Month: March 2016

Solid

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I thought of solid colours initially as this is a biggie for me – I buy so much beautiful fabric in all sorts of designs but then nothing goes together. So my aim this year is to try and only buy solid coloured fabric. But then whilst out shopping in our local farm shop is came to the freezer section – and it’s all frozen solid. Especially these Yorkshire Puddings at a bargain price of 12 for a £1 – homemade too!     Linking in again with the 52 Week Photo Challenge from: Nanacathydotcom Rainbow Junkie The Aran Artisan Wild Daffodil

Dewsbury Makes Linky Party!

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On the 6th February the Yorkshire Spoolette’s gathered in Dewsbury for their 2nd meet up.  We had a great day and came away with bags full to brimming with scrumptious fabric. Once the shops closed we hit Weatherspoon and it was then that I set a challenge for everyone to make something in the next month with something bought on the day.   So here we are!  A linky party of all the gorgeous garments made, and Amanda’s dishcloth! If you didn’t join us but have made something with fabric bought from Dewsbury please add your link.   Links can be from blog posts, instagram or just photos.   It’s easy to do, so link away!! The link will be open until 7th April – another month to get sewing and share with us your fab makes! If anyone knows why you can’t view the pictures without clicking the link please let me know as it’s driving me crazy trying to fix it!!

I Made A Vlog

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About a month ago I’d not even heard of vlogging, and now egged on by some of my lovely readers I made one today! I’ve uploaded it to You Tube, so if you want to see what I’ve been up to today click HERE .  Hope you can understand the Yorkshire accent! An honest opinion would be appreciated, but I’ve realised already that I won’t be giving up my day job!  

#SundaySevens 53

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Hello! Hope you’ve all had a lovely week!  I have!  It’s writing my Sunday Sevens and reflecting on my week that make me realise how lucky I am having an extra 2 hours in the day to everyone else – I must do cos I don’t see how else I could fit everything in! Natalie from Threads and Bobbins thought up the Sunday Sevens over 18 months ago as a way of posting snippets of your week that maybe wouldn’t warrant a blog post all on their own.  You don’t have to sign your life away to join in – just jump in and out as you please – or go for the long haul like me.  It’s my Sunday Sevens Anniversary this weekend and I’ve not missed a week! 1   I started my week with good intentions of running 3 time.  Monday went well but then I started with the sorest throat you can imagine and it’s lingered all week.  Hopefully I’ll be able to get out more next week. 2   Took …

Time For Teal

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Kate who blogs at Tall Tales from Chiconia is co-ordinating the making of a quilt to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Australia.  There’s information on her blog if you’d like to read more and maybe contribute a block too – she needs 36 blocks altogether!  The theme for the block is “Time for Teal”  – so we’re making teal coloured blocks around the afternoon tea theme.  Kate also making a Teal Ribbon block which is the symbol to raise awareness of ovarian cancer. Kate organises a F2F block swap where basically each of the 12 members make 3 12″ blocks per month for a person who’s month it is.  I’m really not explaining this very well, but Pat was one of the ladies, and she sadly lost the fight with ovarian cancer which has lead to the Time For Teal quilt being created.   You really need to head to Kate’s blog who explains it all much better than me. Initially for me the first thing I had to do was go shopping.  Being a very …

Extra

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I think if I didn’t offer an explanation for this one, only my mum would guess the connection for this week’s photo challenge. On Wednesday I worked a 12/12 shift, so should have finished at midnight.  Unfortunately due to the nature of my work  we don’t alway finish on time and last night was one of those times.  I left work 1 1/2 hours after my planned finish time.  So a very tired Thimbers climbed into her car after working an “extra” 90 minutes on top of her 12 hours.  On a positive note the extra dosh earnt will be spent on an extra glass of Mateus Rosé in Portugal! Linking in again with the 52 Week Photo Challenge from: Nanacathydotcom Rainbow Junkie The Aran Artisan Wild Daffodil

A quick way to make a thread looper

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I’ve made thread loopers in the traditional way by hand.  But usually when I get to the stage of making the looper it means I’ve nearly finished whatever I’m making and I want a quicker way to do it.  That’s when the machine stitched looper comes in.  I also find it stronger than the more conventional way. Here’s a hand stitched one I made when I attended the GBSB Sewing With Silk class.  This was the first hand stitched one I’d ever done and wasn’t too neat and also a bit too big. My next attempt was much neater, but just as time consuming: When I made my recent colour blocked dress I went back to my favourite lazy way and used the machine and had it done in about 2 minutes! Here’s how….. Take a long length of matching (or contrasting!) thread and fold it in half, then twice more so you will have 8 strands of thread: Set your machine to the widest zig zag stitch.  The stitch length doesn’t matter as you’ll be pulling …